Twenty-five years ago, Yellowstone National Park suffered the worst fires in its history.
Multiple fires raged in and around the park, beginning in early June and continuing through late September. A total of 51 fires were recorded during the summer, with nine being human-caused and 42 being sparked by lightning.
The fires affected 793,880 acres about 36 percent of the park and, on Sept. 8, forced the closure of Yellowstone to all but emergency personnel for the first time in the park's history.
About 25,000 people fought the fires, which cost $120 million to suppress.
National Park Service
The Tribune wrote a series of articles about the fires on the 20th anniversary in 2008:
Yellowstone: Back from the Ashes
Wildland firefighting changed after 1988 Yellowstone fire
Yellowstone moose suffered the most among park's large mammals
Yellowstone: Succession stages
Each Friday, The Salt Lake Tribune presents images from its archives in a special series called A Look Back. Every gallery of the series is available at www.sltrib.com/topics/lookback.
Here are some of the previous installments:
Early settlers' homes
Episcopal mission on Navajo land in Bluff in 1950
Hotels and boarding houses in the late 1800s
Pony Express, postal service and telegraph in Utah
Early churches in Utah and Wyoming
The mining ghost town of Mercur
Construction of the Salt Lake Tabernacle
Historic buildings in Utah
30 years of iconic rock and roll in Utah
Life on the Ute Reservation in early the 1900s
Women's fashion in the 1960s
Dogs in Utah around 1900
Utah's early cultural diversity
Utah artists from the late 1800s to the early 1900s
Presidential visits to Utah from the 1860s
Hunting and fishing in the early 1900s
BYU, Utah football programs
Saloons, brewing companies in Utah around 1900
The centennial Days of '47 parade in downtown Salt Lake City from July 1947
Women's fashion from 1949-50
Construction of the Salt Lake Temple and SLC in the 1800s
Utah college life from the 1930s to 1960s
Old newspaper advertisements
People and events in Salt Lake City from the 1930s, '40s and '50s
Historical images of Sugar House
Aerial images of Salt Lake City in the 1960s
Historic photos of Temple Square
Historic scenes from Salt Lake City
Saltair
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
Salt Lake City in the 1900s
Key moments in Utah Jazz history
Salt Lake City's Liberty Park from 1935 to 1951
Kennecott Utah Copper Mine in the 1930s and 1940s
Salt Lake City and other Utah cities in the 1800s
Geneva Steel